6.30pm (AEST) – Basketball – World Cup Qualifiers – Australia v China – Melbourne

Adam Bell SC to hand down his findings to ILGA on Star Entertainment’s suitability to hold a casino licence in Sydney

The independent inquiry into NSW floods hands down its first report to NSW Government

AIHW Release – Family, domestic and sexual violence in Australia

Independence Day – Democratic Republic of the Congo

International Asteroid Day

International Day of Parliamentarism

Social Media Day

Birthdays for red Wiggle Murray Cook (1960), former b=heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson (1966), and former Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps (1985)

Anniversary of:
• the world’s first emergency telephone number (999) being introduced in London (1937)
• the first appearance of Superman in DC Comics’ Action Comics Series issue #1 (1938)
• Donald Trump becoming the first sitting US president to set foot in North Korea (2019)
• the Hong Kong national security law coming into effect (2020)